Lots of interesting work going on at North Carolina State Archives – plenty to read on their electronic records page. One project I’d particularly like to highlight is their work on the preservation of e-mail.
E-mail seems to be one of those types of electronic record about which there’s been lots and lots of discussion about [...]
Posts Tagged ‘USA’
E-mail Preservation
Posted in Digital Preservation Networks, Preservation Tools, Research Projects, tagged CERP, Costs, digital preservation, digital recordkeeping, email, email preservation, low cost, North Carolina, small archives, Smithsonian, USA, XML on 10 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Best Practices Exchange
Posted in Digital Preservation Networks, tagged Best Practice Exchanges, digital preservation, USA on 6 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An ongoing sub-theme of my Fellowship has been to look at where success in digital preservation has come by means of collaborative partnerships, and to investigate how communities of shared practice can be built up and best practice ideas exchanged.
The Best Practice Exchanges take place annually, and provide a forum for those working on digital [...]
It’s hot in Arizona!
Posted in Digital Preservation Networks, tagged Arizona, Costs, data storage, digital archives, digital preservation, digital storage, LOCKSS, low cost, NDIIPP, PeDALS, Preservation Networks, USA on 5 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
isiting Arizona was a useful way of pulling together many of the strands of what I’ve learnt so far. I was particularly interested in the Persistent Digital Archives and Library System (PeDALS) project, which aims to create an automated workflow for processing digital collections, but also to keep costs as low as possible in [...]
Washington State Digital Archives
Posted in Operational Digital Archives, tagged Costs, digital archives, digital preservation, NDIIPP, USA, Washington State Digital Archives on 30 September 2008 | 1 Comment »
This was my most challenging (in a thought-provoking way) visit so far. The Washington State (upper left hand corner of the US, for those whose geography is as hazy as mine was!!) Digital Archives doesn’t seem to be terribly well known in the UK, and I’d certainly recommend colleagues have a look at their [...]
Archive-It!
Posted in Operational Digital Archives, Preservation Tools, tagged Archive-It, DSpace, Fedora, Internet Archive, LOCKSS, USA, Web Archiving on 26 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Probably the best posting I can make on the Internet Archive, based in San Francisco, is to encourage colleagues to have a look at their Archive-It subscription service, and perhaps attend a free webinar about the tool (details on the site) or at least have a look through some of the collections from partner institutions [...]
